The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-21

Canada border when ne had every opportunity
to go a-gunninG after battle-fags; be hears the
contented monoloeua OF hen who is foraging
through the strawberry bed and occasionally di-
viding the spoiis with the weak though much
oftener with the strong. and mistakes it for the
restless 'cucKD of q hen moved by promptings
of the maternal instinct to brood over a whole
nestful of the unsearchable possibilities of eggs
whose fruitful harvest may. good wot, dominate
the electoral barnyard. He said Il will 60 in to
this obliteration aud reconciliation business as a
Jobber; will take up that laid not down. will
gather where have not strewed and reap where
| did not sow. / will weather these flag return
ers and cross the line ahead of the whole feet by
a clean majority
Alas for the man who would set a nom "set-
ting hen, or, finding a willing one, setteth her
upon dragons teeth!
That hen wasn't ready to set. and the mis-
taken President has crumpled his linen. over
heated himself, impaired his dignity filled the
air with dust and feathers. and set the whole
national harnyard into wild commotion. and The
hen which he sought to .set" is perched high on
the reel of the old Grant reaper. which has been
under the shed since 1865 where she makes the
farm ring with defiant protests Even If that
hen was half ready to set, President Cleveland
isn't the man to set her. He hasn't bean with
her enough Somehow. she seems to roost high
every time he comes around the barnyard. If
she had more of him now, say. when she
was about twenty-five years younger. it might
have been different.
Any man old enough to be President ought to
be able to when hen wants to set hen
is such a fool she reminds me Of men. And even
o resident IL OUT man. see, now, nave d
quarrel with my brother. with whom | have
lived pleasantly enough ever since our father
died, away back in 1776 We fight long time,
but at last lick" him, take away his marbles
and make him come back into the the house and
behave himself give him the best place at the
taole. and. by and by, acquiesce when he says 1t
Is his turn to run the house In a moment of good
feeling and fraternal love begin to give back
the marbles took from him. He doesn't ask
for them, but give them to him. / want to do
this; 1t peases him and makes me feel better
While I am doing this along my step
father, who hid himself under the bed all the
time fighting and only sent the hired
man to represent him-he comes along now and
says:
sHere. Jefferson, I'm going to give you back
all the marbles that Abraham took away from
you."
Will give my brother another solitary mar
bles Not by a long chalk; I'll .lick' my step
father first BY his illtimed meddlesome inter
ference in matter that ddnt concern him, he
has retarded what he sought to promote.
And finally. brethren. when the hen is ready
to set she sets" All the Presidents from Wash
lngton to Mexico can't stop her. 1t you destroy
her nest and lock her out of the hennery she will
set with perfect faith and treless patience under
the hobs of an old woodshed; on bottle-neck
and bureau-knob. She may even be reduced
to the necessity OF setting standing up, but she
will set When it comes time to return the
battlefags the men who captured them will re-
store them and no man who stayed in Buffalo
all through the battle flag season need feel called
upon to tell them when that time arrives. The
hen will be apt to know it herself A man who
would tell a hen when it is time for her to 'set"
would have gall enough to tell a man on ship
board that he would come around and tell him
when to begin to get seasick.
THE time tn set hen is when the hen is red
dy tn set"
Cut that out and paste it in your hat, Mr.. Pres
ident; it may save your second term.